Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant still not talking about 2016 playoffs
Don’t ask Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant about the 2016 playoffs unless you want to get swatted.
The Golden State Warriors forced a Game 7 in their Western Conference Finals series against the Houston Rockets on Saturday in a game where Dubs guard Klay Thompson exploded for 35 points on nine three-pointers. Other than earning the admiration of the Internet, the performance brought back memories of when Thompson went scorched earth in another Western Conference Finals Game 6: against the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2016.
Curry and Durant were speaking to the media after the game when a reporter brought up that past performance, only for both former MVPs to promptly shut it down. Ben Golliver of Sports Illustrated shared the funny exchange.
Reporter: What do you remember about Klay's big Game 6 in OKC in 2016?
Kevin Durant: "Please don't go there. Next question."
Stephen Curry: "I think we both blocked that whole year out of our memory."
— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) May 27, 2018
Of course, that is the year when Durant, who was still on the Thunder, blew a 3-1 lead in that conference finals series to Curry and the Warriors, who then blew their own 3-1 lead to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.
While they obviously still don’t want to talk about it, the events of that year directly led to the Curry-Durant union in Golden State, so things have worked out pretty nicely for them since. In any case, this is just the latest chapter in a funny history of the Warriors denying that the 2016 playoffs ever happened.